We think this man (Armin van Buuren) needs no introduction, one of the trance daddy of all time.
Recently DJ Mag announced its yearly results of Top 100 DJs 2016.
First of all we would like to congratulate the man on being as #4 and also to be in Top 5 from 15 years in a row, now that’s really impressive and of course he deserves it after all.
For those who don’t know Armin works in his studio for almost 60-80 hours a week, preparing for new tunes, remixes etc etc, unstoppable he is.
Now coming straight to the point, recently he appeared on Night Owl radio, and when being asked by Pasquale Rotella (EDC Founder also the host and owner of Night Owl radio) about being what has he felt any pressure anytime in his carrier, he responded this..

“I went through a very difficult time in 2010 being voted #1 in DJ Magazine, aaaah, whatever that means, because all of a sudden i wasn’t Armin van Buuren anymore, i was a Product, i was the number one DJ in the world and its a very weird title to me, i said that when i was number 1 and i always say it, i mean i guess there are some good and bad sides of DJ Mag but i don’t know i just felt pressure, i just didn’t feel free anymore, i felt that i was stuck in sort of zone right just had to produce the familiaric music and notice keep my fans happy, and don’t get me wrong i love my fans but i wasn’t happy because i was just doing only the things to please my fans and i started to realise that you know i think i wanna make music and i wanna look back to my carrier couple of years that i also did something that i really liked u know, its always about finding the balance in your life i guess i wanted to create music, i want to grow as a writer, as a song producer and you know go out of my way a little bit, also to make trancy stuff more exciting, so that’s when i started working onto the GAIA project, that’s when i started a new label “Who’s Afraid of 138?”, i started the sort of to stretch the boundaries what i could do and you know i was very afraid, i was gonna loose motivation as a DJ, just because i wasn’t feeling anything what i was doing, so i really went out of my way and started producing music little bit different, so i started working with you know very random people who just throwing several different things together and i knew i was gonna get shit for it because you know some of the trancy can be very conservative, they like only one thing which is fine, its not criticising, but for me i had to step out a little bit to feel inspired and reinvent trance sounds for myself again.
I had stopped reading everything on twitter because it just killed me at one point, and its killing my creativity because i was just i started to notice as well, i was reading it in the wrong way about there would be 99 positive comments about a set that i played on a weekend only 1 comment that was bad and boom all the creativity was gone, i could be sitting in the studio, nothing was coming out of my head so i just felt miserable, all i wanted to is please the fans of and that was the wrong thing to do.”

Here’s the full radio show along with the interview

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